Wait a minute.. Santos is the Republicans problem. He is one of them, and they started all this by ignoring Trump and allowing him to run roughshod over their party.
Now, it’s the media’s problem. How does a candidate that very likely is directly tied to a Russian Oligarch get into Congress with no media scrutiny over very very easy to find issues?
Well, you gotta admit some blame goes to his opponent. Robert Zimmerman’s campaign totally muffed that didn’t they? Like, pay for some background research?
Well, yes. His opponent is partly to blame as are all the others.
But I blame the DNC. You remember the DNC, which Howard Dean had famously put on a 50-state strategy?
What kind of 50-state strategy is it, in a 50/50 toss-up district, that you let arguably one of the more obviously unqualified candidates get elected. This isn’t a 65% Trump district in the heart of Alabama. This is NYC metro, a seat Dems should have won.
So I ask…
Why is the DNC asking me for money constantly if they’re not gonna do BASIC CANDIDATE SUPPORT with it.
Here is a proposition:
Any Republican who has never held a position of responsibility before, and there are more all the time, snags a Congressional nomination. Pay a few thousand out of the MILLIONS AND MILLIONS you raise from us, to do BASIC OPPOSITION RESEARCH. What the actual fuck. Why am I giving money ever to the DNC???
Wait, you say even if we do that, the media won’t bite. IT IS YOUR JOB TO MAKE THE FUCKING MEDIA BITE. That’s what you consultants that are paid lots of money are hired to do.
Pay me a percentage of the ad revenue in this race and I will:
Look at Santos linked in page.
Contact the people he says he works for.
Verify he is lying.
Rinse, repeat.
So, I haven’t really seen a mea culpa from the DNC about his? No, wow, we really screwed the pooch on this one.
So I invite the DNC or a Rep of the DNC to post a diary here on Kos telling us what they did before the election to investigate/do opposition research on Santos.
Until then, no money from me.
UPDATE: Of course I know there is a DCCC and a DNC… of course I mean all of them when I say “no money for DNC” and..
...yes they did oppo research and just repeated the Santos campaigns talking points and debunked the political arguments but took resume at face value. Who does that?